March 4 In 1870, a Metis firing squad executed Ontario adventurer Thomas Scott for attempting to overthrow Louis Riel\u2019s government at Manitoba\u2019s Red River Colony. The sentence ultimately led to Riel\u2019s execution 15 years later. In 2019, Treasury Board President Jane Philpott resigned from the federal cabinet over the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter she had \u201clost confidence in how the government\u201d had dealt with the issue. Philpott\u2019s resignation came just less than a month after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, and Philpott\u2019s good friend, resigned from cabinet amid allegations that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office had improperly pressured her to stop a criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. March 6 In 2019, Justin Trudeau\u2019s former principal secretary testified the SNC-Lavalin… <\/p>\n
March 4 In 1870, a Metis firing squad executed Ontario adventurer Thomas Scott for attempting to overthrow Louis Riel\u2019s government at Manitoba\u2019s Red River Colony. The sentence ultimately led to Riel\u2019s execution 15 years later. In 2019, Treasury Board President Jane Philpott resigned from the federal cabinet over the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter she had \u201clost confidence in how the government\u201d had dealt with the issue. Philpott\u2019s resignation came just less than a month after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, and Philpott\u2019s good friend, resigned from cabinet amid allegations that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office had improperly pressured her to stop a criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. March 6 In 2019, Justin Trudeau\u2019s former principal secretary testified the SNC-Lavalin... <\/p>\n